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Nicaragua condemns US blockade of Cuba
Cuban News Agency
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July 3, 2025
HAVANA, Cuba, July 2 (ACN) The Government of Reconciliation and National Unity of Nicaragua expressed its firm support for Cuba and denounced the intensification of the U.S. blockade, calling it "inhumane and criminal." In an official statement...
Nicaragua reports external debt reduction in first quarter of 2025
Prensa Latina - Cuba
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July 3, 2025
The financial institution specified that this is the result of a $40.3 million decrease in private external debt and a $37.2 million increase in public external debt. According to the Central Bank of Nicaragua, the country’s total external debt...
Building Memory, Documenting the Truth: The Case of Nicaragua’s Confidencial
Global Investigative Journalism Network
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July 3, 2025
Is reporting possible while living under persecution? When you don’t know from where you’ll be attacked, or if you will be discredited, threatened, intimidated, or forced into exile? Where the choices are sometimes as stark as choosing jail,...
Cuba appreciates Nicaragua and Bolivia’s denunciations of US measures
Prensa Latina - Cuba
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July 2, 2025
Through the social media platform X, the foreign minister expressed his gratitude to co-presidents Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, as well as to the Government of National Unity and Reconciliation and its revolutionary people for their...
Why Is Nicaragua Silencing Critics Even Abroad?
Asume Tech
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July 2, 2025
The assassination of a Nicaraguan military officer turned activist in Costa Rica has triggered severe alarm among human rights advocates and Nicaraguan expatriates. This incident marks the sixth case of a Nicaraguan opponent being killed or...
Reid chases NACAC medals in Nicaragua
Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
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Daija Reid, star of last weekend’s National Association of Athletics Administrations of T&T (NAAATT)/National Gas Company (NGC)/Republic Bank National Junior Championships, as expected was named on the national team to...
Fears grow after Nicaraguan critic murdered in Costa Rica
NBC News
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July 2, 2025
IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Now Playing Fears grow after Nicaraguan critic murdered in Costa Rica 02:39 UP NEXT Deadly strike hits beach café in Gaza 01:22 Humanoid robots play soccer in...
Nicaraguan State Terrorism in Costa Rica
Havana Times
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June 30, 2025
Claudia Vargas, Roberto Samcam’s wife, together with her children and other loved ones at his funeral on June 22nd. The retired Nicaraguan Army Major was assassinated in Costa Rica, where he was exiled. Photo: Ivan Olivares / Confidencial The...
Retired Nicaraguan Army Captain Sentenced to 50 Years for Treason
Tico Times
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June 30, 2025
A retired military officer was sentenced to 50 years in prison in Nicaragua for the crime of “treason against the homeland,” his family denounced on Saturday, saying they had not known his whereabouts since he was detained by police in May....
Everything To Know About Volcano Boarding In Nicaragua
Travel Noire
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June 30, 2025
Picture it. After a grueling 45-minute to one-hour hike up Nicaragua’s youngest volcano, Cerro Negro, you get to reward yourself with the thrill of a lifetime: volcano boarding. Similar to the winter recreational activity of snowboarding and the...
Nicaragua: Ex-Military Officer Gets 50 Years for Treason
Havana Times
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June 28, 2025
Aníbal Rivas Reed was sentenced while in forced dissapearance Aníbal Martín Rivas Reed, Nicaraguan political prisoner and former military officer. //Photo: Taken from social media. The family of the former military officer denounces cruel...
Nicaragua and Mexico Unemployment Rate Drops to 2.7%, the Lowest in America
teleSUR
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June 28, 2025
Banana production in Nicaragua. Photo: X June 28, 2025 Hour: 3:32 pm In May 2025, Nicaragua and Mexico recorded, according to official figures, one of the lowest unemployment rates on the continent, at 2.7%. RELATED: Nicaragua and China Break...
Refugees worry: Is Nicaragua assassinating government critics in Costa Rica?
WLRN - Florida
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Roberto Samcam Ruiz took security measures seriously. A retired Nicaraguan army major who had spoken out against the Sandinista government, he fled to neighboring Costa Rica after his name started popping up on wanted posters. When out in public...
Nicaragua crackdown on Christianity deepens amid political power grab
Christian Today
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June 27, 2025
The Christ of the Mercy statue in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua. (Photo: Getty/iStock) A new policy brief released by Open Doors has exposed as a systematic campaign of repression against Christian communities in Nicaragua. The publication of the...
Nicaragua officially requests observer status in the EAEU — presidential envoy
TASS
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June 26, 2025
MINSK, June 26. /TASS/. Nicaragua has officially requested the status of an observer in the Eurasian Economic Union, Nicaraguan Presidential Envoy Laureano Ortega Murillo said at the group’s meeting in Belarus. "Nicaragua has officially requested...
Nicaragua government tied to illegal land invasions in wildlife refuge, documents suggest
Mongabay
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June 26, 2025
Río San Juan Wildlife Refuge in southeastern Nicaragua has suffered a wave of deforestation in recent years, fueled by land deals that allow settlers to clear the rainforest for farming, mining and cattle ranching. Without government support,...
Nicaraguan teenager in Sligo creates prize-winning art inspired by his personal history
Irish Independent
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Seventeen-year-old Rodrigo Collado García and his family have been seeking asylum in Ireland for the past three years. Prior to taking part in The Mary Elmes Prize in Holocaust Students, Rodrigo’s knowledge of the Holocaust was limited. But that...
Guatemala Offers Asylum to Nicaraguan Migrants Deported by U.S.
Tico Times
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June 28, 2025
Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo announced on Friday that his country will grant asylum to Nicaraguan migrants deported by the United States who do not wish to return to their country due to the political situation. In an agreement signed...
I live in Italy — this Umbrian village is one of my best discoveries
The Times
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Every autumn, the people of Umbria reach for their rakes and head for the hills. There they come together for an ancestral ritual: the olive harvest. For centuries this was papal territory and, fittingly, this is a rite of self-sacrifice and...
UK mobile network with 10 million customers brings back free roaming
Leeds Live
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July 4, 2025
A leading mobile network with 10 million customers is set to reintroduce free roaming for travellers this summer. UK holidaymakers heading to the European Union have been informed that Three Mobile will reinstate this significant benefit for them....